Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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Every casting director I've met is a woman.
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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The European Union remains a staunch supporter of the ICC and is committed to full co-operation on the prevention of serious crimes falling under the jurisdiction of the Court.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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Here I stand, I'm your man.
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I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country - energy and malaise.
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Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.
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I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.
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Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true.
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Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...
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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
